hit girl essay.

I think that the character called hit girl in Kick Ass is shown to have a complicated personality to make the audience think and decide if she is a heroine or whether she is morally reprehensible. I would class hit girl as a postmodern heroine as she is preventing bad and stopping evil in their tracks, although the scenes with her are extremely graphical and her language is worse than terrible as she goes around saying “which one of you c*nts is next?” and this is extremely bad language for a 12 year old girl. I think that the director has purposely inserted this language into the film to take the audiences eye off of some of the violence portrayed in the film. Hit girls personality is very postmodern as she is shown in many different ways such as being an innocent looking school girl, and then it goes to her being a serious crime fighter that shoots, cuts peoples limbs off and throw knifes at men’s bits, this makes her character postmodern as she is shown in many different ways.

Some of the violence in hit girl’s roles in the film are rather comical as the violence is presented in a comical way such as throwing her knife at the man in the bathroom. Hit girl is shown as being the main crime fighter and she sees the most action in the film and this is a complete contrast to the comic book heroines as comic book heroines are shown as doing close to nothing in the books and that they are more eye candy for the male readers than super heroes.

Hit girls clothing is different to the stereotypical view of a marvel comic book super hero or heroine as the stereotypical view of a superhero is with them being in tight fitting clothes and having some sort of identity on their chest e.g. S for superman and a spider for spiderman ect.... whereas hit girl has what looks like a bikers leather jacket and trousers that look to be a size too big and this is not the typical superheroes clothing. In marvel comic books heroines are sexualised as they do nothing to help out the hero, this is shown as they all have big boobs and they also have very little on so this is showing the readers the slim figure of a heroine making them eye candy, whereas hit girl is wearing a baggy purple leather jacket and trousers, with purple hair, and a purple cape, she is also the superhero that does the most crime fighting in the film so the director has tried to overcome and stop the stereotypical views of a heroine by showing a girl with no sexual appeal and she is being the main crime fighter in the film.

Then in one of the advertisement posters there is a picture of hit girl in a school uniform and she is posing with her legs open and this suggests that there is some sort of sexual appeal to this image as a school uniform is a sexualised object with some grownups and also hit girl has her legs open and this could also be connotated as being sexual and finally her facial expressions all fit into the male gaze

After looking into hit girls character i have came to the decision that she is a postmodern heroine as she ticks all of the boxes for being a heroine, but she also goes against many of the stereotypes of a typical heroin as she is not sexualised and she is the main crime fighter, also her language is atrocious and the violence portrayed is very graphical, but at the same time comical.